ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lary M. Dilsaver a native Californian, is Professor Emeritus of Historical Geography at the University of South Alabama and a thirty-year volunteer researcher for the National Park Service. He has written more than forty articles and book chapters on national parks and historic landscapes, and he has authored or edited six books, including Challenge of the Big Trees: The History of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, A Revised Edition, with William C. Tweed (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2016), America's National Park System: The Critical Documents (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994; second edition, 2016), and Cumberland Island National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict (University of Virginia Press, in association with the Center for American Places, 2004).